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Crossing Paths (541)

Farewell, Dustox!

As they travel towards the next town, Jessie's Dustox becomes infatuated with a Shiny Dustox. It seems that it is now mating season for Dustox and as Dustox begins to find happiness, Jessie becomes conflicted on whether to keep Dustox, preventing it from being happy, or letting her old friend go...

Well i am sorry that i couldn't post this pics before because the forum was not loading up properly for me. So here are some pics from the episode,

Also it seems that Jessie released Dustox by breaking its pokeball into bits (thats a new thing).

Well though this episode was similar to "ByeBye Butterfree" from the first season, i felt upon seeing the pics that it is still a bit different. In "ByeBye Butterfree" the episode was about Butterfree trying to impress the Shiny Butterfree, but in this episode it feels like it is about Jessie's past.
Please tell me really what happened & is the girl really Jessie.

And Jessie crushed Dustox's ball, because it really didn't want to leave her, but I guess Jessie knew what was best. We got a nice flashback to when Dustox was a Wurmple, then Cascoon, then it winning Jessie a ribbon. Really sad stuff.

Last edited by ZgonDuck; 3rd April 2008 at 4:53 PM.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?, -Dr. Seuss

So, after all, the girl from the flashback WAS Jessie after all. The green-haired girl reminded me of her rival from the TR office, but...well,...this is pokemon character design after all.

I really liked this episode, even with terrible animation and art style it was very emotional too me.

Funny when Manene mimiced Mimirol´s jumping or all of TR pokemon helped building the damn.
Funny as well when Joi explained everything while our favourite breeder was knocked out in the background for the second time without anyone noticing.

The flashback felt very anime-ish too me. Might have been the clothing, the setting and all, but it didn´t felt very pokémon like to me. Which is, sometimes a good thing. ^^

Damn, Kaze To Isshoni really was a nice addition as well. I felt really bad for Dustox...it never had this much text like in this episode but I really liked its screechy voice at the end when it didn´t want to leave Jessie.

I can't believe they gave Jessie such a great episode! This is probably the first time I ever felt anything other than apathy towards her, and I really liked her as a human being (in an anime mind you).

Figured that the girl in the Flashback was Jessie. It looked exactly like her. I'm guessing the geeky guy with the glasses might've been somewhere in there as well.

Team Rocket centric episodes are pretty high up there in emotional content. Even if it wasn't the usual victim out there getting his feelings hurt (James) it still had that same type of impact. Jessie acted pretty dramatically about her past before in passing, but at least here we know that her outpouring is genuine. Before it was kind of debatable. We knew she was tragic but we also know she's a liar. *shrug*

Alright, just saw it, I didn't see the first 7 minutes so I have some confusions, but it was a great episode.
Okay, the thing that bugs me is when they are rebuilding the dam, all of everyone's pokemon, Team Rocket included, were out, infact, between the entire main five humans, only two pokemon were not sent out, Gligar and Staravia. That's right, the only two pokemon in the whole main cast that got shafted were Ash's two fliers. Something tells me that if Dustox can lift a big rock, Staravia and Gligar could too.
Mime Jr. imitating Buneary was great

Dustox's Departure was sad, especially the Pokeball crushing. Its voice sounded so sad, I bet the English VA is gonna have some difficulty pulling it off.

Now for my confusion, was the boy with the Shiny Dustox the boy from the flashback or just a look alike, cause if it was the same guy wouldn't he have aged, at all?
Also, what was the plot of the whole flashback, cause the only one I saw was the one where he gets on a bus, then Jessie chases after him, then trips, it didn't make much sense to me.

Now for my confusion, was the boy with the Shiny Dustox the boy from the flashback or just a look alike, cause if it was the same guy wouldn't he have aged, at all?

As far as I can see, the guy would've at least gained some height. But concerning your question - that was never resolved, if I understood correctly.

An argument against this would be that even after the Dustox guy told Jessie his name, all she had to comment on was that he looked similar to someone she knew, which suggests that the boy from her schooldays has a different name - otherwise (in my opinion) she would have had a stronger reaction and actually considered that they were the same person, which she didn't.

Also, what was the plot of the whole flashback, cause the only one I saw was the one where he gets on a bus, then Jessie chases after him, then trips, it didn't make much sense to me.

Jessie and the boy were schoolfellows (at least I think so, judging by the uniform), and she liked him. He was about to start a journey to become a Top Coordinator and actually asked Jessie to go with him, but she declined, saying she would attend a local audition with two other friends and try to become a singer.

Jessie ended up failing at the audition while her friends could both advance to the next round, and regretted her decision not to follow the boy.

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As far as I can see, the guy would've at least gained some height. But concerning your question - that was never resolved, if I understood correctly.

An argument against this would be that even after the Dustox guy told Jessie his name, all she had to comment on was that he looked similar to someone she knew, which suggests that the boy from her schooldays has a different name - otherwise (in my opinion) she would have had a stronger reaction and actually considered that they were the same person, which she didn't.

Jessie and the boy were schoolfellows (at least I think so, judging by the uniform), and she liked him. He was about to start a journey to become a Top Coordinator and actually asked Jessie to go with him, but she declined, saying she would attend a local audition with two other friends and try to become a singer.

Jessie ended up failing at the audition while her friends could both advance to the next round, and regretted her decision not to follow the boy.

Thank you, I understand it now. Wow, her entire past is like one big sob story. Being poor, her mom dying, now all of this?! haha poor Jessie